July 2009

20 beautiful dark themes for Gnome and Ubuntu
Posted by Jean-Baptiste Jung on Aug 18, 2008 | 48 comments
Some weeks ago, I shown you a list of 30 themes for enhancing your Gnome desktop. Many readers loved the dark themes from this list, so here’s a new list of 20 dark and absolutely beautiful themes for your Gnome desktop.

30 Gnome themes to enhance your Ubuntu experience
Posted by Jean-Baptiste Jung on Jul 22, 2008 | 62 comments
To be honest, I never really liked Human, Ubuntu’s default theme, and seems that many other people don’t. Happilly, on GNU/Linux systems it is easy to customize everything, even the buttons aspect or the windows borders. Here’s a list of 30 Gnome themes of all styles, from the Windows XP look-a-like to the very original skin, to enhance your Ubuntu experience.

April 2008

About
Apple's Time Machine is a great feature in their OS, and Linux has almost all of the required technology already built in to recreate it. This is a simple GUI to make it easy to use.
Website: http://flyback-project.org/
Instructions
To use, make sure you have the following packages installed:
Debian $ sudo apt-get install python python-glade2 python-gnome2 python-sqlite3 rsync
Ubuntu $ sudo apt-get install python python-glade2 python-gnome2 python-sqlite3 python-gconf rsync
Redhat/Fedora $ yum install pygtk2 gnome-python2-gconf pygtk2-libglade python-sqlite3
Then download:
$ svn checkout http://flyback.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ flyback
or
$ wget http://flyback.googlecode.com/files/flyback_0.4.0.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf flyback_0.4.0.tar.gz
Then change to the new directory ("flyback/src/" or "flyback/", depending on which you chose above) and run:
$ python flyback.py

February 2008

Code Guide
This is a summary of the codes you can use when posting on your SU blog and in SU forums. Please see the front page for more information :)
Also, you might want to try the HTML code generator.